Hi, I've got a website going with a group of friends with 2 of us managing atm - I'm the admin and design guy, although I'm sure I will be ranting as well

review here

The site is for us to write ranting articles and also for users to submit their own annoyances. I think we've ironed out all the problems, and it seems to be running very nicely. I've done it in Joomla, and our site also has a shiny new template since this edit...

Please review this site at the above thread and what you think of the idea, also possibly even send some of your own rants to us!! They can be on anything, and don't hold back the anger! I'd appreciate the help!

Thanks

This post has been edited by Jimmy: Jul 21 2007, 04:09 PM

Well I think it's a neat idea. And I don't see Joomla getting upset about the logo (was it in a psd file?) besides you left the copyright information at the bottom.

You just need more content!

Joomla Portal! It's nice, I like Joomla . It's all free , open source.
You use Joomla default Skin! Have many skin you can fine, why do you search?
I want to help you about some templates but I know Joomla well . ( Im trying it ).
hope your site will develop and popular!
"The current one is sweet! - Keep it! "

It's ok since your using the default template, should do some browsing and see what templates you can find that fit your theme. I check out the links and I found the following problems;

Rantings Page: text broke outside the template should check the coding on that.

Everything else looks fine from what I can tell from how the original joomla template works.

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Nah, the joomla logo was simply a jpeg that I photochopped! But I'm glad you think it won't matter - I even stole their font too Its great you like the idea Smack, we've had it for a while just never got round to doing it until I came along with my expertise (and I found about joomla) !!

Thanks kery for the positive enthusiasm and voting on the poll!!! I'd really appreciate the help for the templates!! and I'm sure you'd appreciate some credits

I have had a very long look, opening millions of tabs in firefox! but found no decent templates (free) I'll keep looking nevertheless.

to SM: I already know about the wrapping problem and it has been fixed in all areas of the site... but thanks for pointing that out!
Its completely fixed now, there should be no problems... please tell me if it is still not working properly, as it seems fine now to me and ben. The problem was long titles. The rantings section suddenly started using columns once the third article was published. (1 main, rest in columns) So I changed it back to 1 as it should be. (this allows longer names for the titles, preventing the problem!) I had already changed it to single column for blog where there was already more than three articles and I had seen the problem, but hadn't noticed the others until like 10 mins ago when he posted the new rant!!!!

Hmmm. I have decided along with Ben to keep the standard template. Its very clean and not too bland, so It will do!
I modified the background colour slightly from blank white to a slight blue / grey colour. This makes an absolutely HUGE difference, as it differentiates the main content part from the background! If you use the default template I suggest doing this, it really makes your page look better! just use colourpicker on the colour I used if you do like it...
All text wrapping problems gone completely! and the daily e-Mail section looks pretty cool!

biggrin.gif does anyone else have any views on our site?

This post has been edited by Jimmy: May 30 2007, 03:24 PM

Well, I went on a brief moment of insanity and decided I didn't care and bought the templates anyway!!!

so dailyrant.org.uk now has a new template. I have sort of moved things around / made some changes

This post has been edited by Jimmy: Jul 7 2007, 08:59 PM

merged...

This post has been edited by Jimmy: Jul 7 2007, 09:00 PM